US troops frequently wear cameras while out on missions, sometimes even using their own GoPro-style devices. The US military has opened an investigation after images surfaced online this week that appear to have been taken from the helmet camera of one of the US. Questions remain about what intelligence failures may have occurred that allowed such a large attack, but the Pentagon has remained tight-lipped about the circumstances surrounding the ambush as well as the nature of the mission while it conducts a probe. The body of one US soldier, Sergeant La David Johnson, was not recovered until the following day. The 4-ply CST Ambush ATV Tire uses a directional front tread design for predictable cornering with straight-line stability. They were attacked by a group of some 50 fighters affiliated with IS and equipped with small arms, grenades and trucks mounted with guns.ДЇour American soldiers were killed along with at least five Nigerien troops. Original file (WebM audio/video file, VP8, length 5 min 25 s, 1,280 Г— 720 pixels, 2.12 Mbps overall) File information. The ambush occurred as a unit of 12 American special forces soldiers and 30 Nigerien troops returned from the village near the border with Mali. Size of this JPG preview of this WEBM file: 800 Г— 450 pixels. 'We are reviewing the post and determining the veracity of the tweet and the assertions that there is an associated video,' AFRICOM said in a statement. Helmet camera footage recorded by a Ukrainian special operations forces soldier (SSO) reportedly shows a successful ambush on a patrol of Russian combat vehicles. The US military's Africa command said it was aware of the Twitter postings purporting to show the October 4 ambush in Tongo Tongo, Niger.

One tweet, now deleted, claimed there was an associated video.

Recovered helmet cam video ambush mali